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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Hans Blix warns attacking Iran is ‘path to disaster’

Dr Blix – who led the hunt for
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the 2003 war – said it was
not “evident” Tehran was seeking nuclear weaponry.

Military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities would be “a path
to disaster rather than a solution”, former United Nations weapons
inspector Dr Hans Blix has warned.

And he warned
that there was no imminent threat from Iran that would justify
pre-emptive action counter to the UN charter. Dr Blix’s comments came as
former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell said military
action on Iran would “set fire to the Middle East”.

The Lib Dem
manifesto for the 2010 election explicitly committed the party to
opposing such action, but Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently
questioned this stance, saying: “You don’t in a situation like this take
any options off the table.”

Concerns over Tehran’s intentions
were heightened yesterday by the news Iran has begun loading
domestically-made nuclear fuel rods into its research reactor in
defiance of sanctions.
But Dr Blix, a former head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, said it was not yet clear whether
western states were correct in accusing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of
seeking military capability. Tehran insists its nuclear programme is
for civil energy use only.
“It is possible – but is denied by Iran
and not evident to me – that there is a determination to make a nuclear
weapon,” said Dr Blix. He cautioned current IAEA head Yukiya Amano not
to jump to conclusions.

“In my view, the agency should not… draw
conclusions from information where the supplier is not ready also to
show evidence,” he said.